[OSM-dev] Announcing the launch of OSM Maps for Wikipedia

[Sylvain Maillard]

Congratulation, that's a great work !

did you manage to find a way to provide localization for all languages
within the vector tiles ?


cheers,
Sylvain


2015-09-17 23:03 GMT+02:00 Tim Waters <chippy2005 at gmail.com>:

> Congratulations! Awesome stuff, been looking forward to it for some
> time. I particularly like the different resolutions for various device
> uses.
>
> Will try to add it as the default layer for the Wikimedia Commons
> Wikimaps Warper (warper.wmflabs.org) application for georectifying
> historical maps soon.  Perhaps one day the same architecture could be
> used to power mosaics of historical atlases  - but let's get the world
> right now working first :)
>
> Cheers and look forward to seeing maps.wikimedia.org progress in the
> months to come!
>
> On 17 September 2015 at 19:46, Yuri Astrakhan <yastrakhan at wikimedia.org>
> wrote:
> > Wikimedia Foundation has implemented a new vector tile service
> Kartotherian
> > (Mapbox+Mapnik stack) and launched an experimental tile and static maps
> > service available at https://maps.wikimedia.org. Using this service,
> you can
> > browse and embed map tiles into your own tools using OpenStreetMap data.
> > Currently, we handle traffic from *.wmflabs.org and *.wikivoyage.org
> > (referrer header must be either missing or set to these values) but we
> hope
> > to open it up to Wikipedia traffic if we see enough use.
> >
> > Getting started is as easy as
> > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Maps#Getting_Started
> >
> > Tiles are served from https://maps.wikimedia.org, but can only be
> accessed
> > from *.wmflabs.org and *.wikivoyage.org.  Kartotherian can produce
> tiles as
> > images (png), and as raw vector data (pbf Mapbox format or json):
> >   https://maps.wikimedia.org/{source}/{zoom}/{x}/{y}[@{scale}x].{format}
> >
> > Additionally, Kartotherian can produce snapshot (static) images of any
> > location, scaling, and zoom level with
> >
> >
> https://maps.wikimedia.org/img/{source},{zoom},{lat},{lon},{width}x{height}[@{scale}x].{format}
> > For example, to get an image centred at 42,-3.14, at zoom level 4, size
> > 800x600, use
> https://maps.wikimedia.org/img/osm-intl,4,42,-3.14,800x600.png
> > (copy/paste the link, or else it might not work due to referrer
> > restriction).
> >
> > Editing map style is very easy using the Mapbox Studio, and does not
> require
> > any data on your machine - simply point it at Wikimedia server.
> >
> > How can you help?
> > * Provide us feedback to help guide future features
> > * Improve our map styles
> > * Improve our data extraction
> > * File bugs in Phabricator
> > * Adapt your labs tool to use this service - for example, use Leaflet js
> > library and point it to https://maps.wikimedia.org
> >
> > Based on usage and your feedback, the Discovery team will decide how to
> > proceed. We could add more data sources (both vector and raster), work on
> > additional services such as static maps or geosearch, work on supporting
> all
> > languages, switch to client-side WebGL rendering, etc. Please help us
> decide
> > what is most important.
> >
> > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Maps has more about the project and
> related
> > Maps work.
> >
> > We would like to thank WMF Ops (especially Alex Kosiaris, Brandon Black,
> and
> > Jaime Crespo), services team, OSM community and engineers, and the Mapnik
> > and Mapbox teams. The project would not have completed so fast without
> you.
> >
> >
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